John Kerry: They're swiftboating Obama

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[Sub-Driver]

John Kerry: They're swiftboating Obama

3/29/12 4:24 PM EDT

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has lent his name to a fundraising solicitation that raises the specter of millionaires and billionaires funding an outside effort against President Obama.

"When I was the Democratic nominee for president in one of the closest and toughest elections in history, a group of billionaires did something unprecedented," Kerry wrote. "They wrote million-dollar checks to fund lies about my service on what were called "Swift Boats" in Vietnam -- and in so doing, they turned the boats my crewmates and I served on into a new political shorthand for the most vicious smears imaginable: 'swiftboating.'"

In 2004, an anti-Kerry 527 group formed to raise questions about his war record and air ads against the senator, then running as the Democratic nominee for president. Its' spokesman, Jerome Corsi, would go on to become one of the leading proponents of the 'birther' conspiracy that falsely suggests Obama was born in Kenya or elsewhere.

Kerry points to a $3 million dollar donation to a pro-Romney super PAC by Houston construction magnate Bob Perry as the next round in an outside effort against Obama.

"One man. Three million dollars. And that's just the start," Kerry writes.

"I know all too clearly that these guys will do or say anything to win. They'll stop at nothing. But forewarned is forearmed. Their multi-million dollar smear tactics were new in 2004; in 2012 we know their playbook, and shame on us if we don't tear it into shreds. Join me and we will stop the 'swiftboating' of President Obama," Kerry emails.

[Seizethecarp]

Kerry is not doing too well in the comments section of the Politico article. Seems few are too keen on trying to defend him or Barry.

[rawcatslyentist]

Johnny's a Hero.

A VC Hero.

Photograph of John Kerry meeting with Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Vietnam. Photo displayed in the War Remnants Museum (formerly the \'War Crimes Museum\') in Saigon. The June 2, 2004

[rktman]

Uh, neither of them is very swift if you get my drift.

[Tupelo]

I thought it was Cambodia over Christmas Vacation 1968.
But I could be wrong. Naa

[rlmorel]

I feel very strongly about the Swift boat vets… I thought that what they did during the 2004 campaign did indeed save this country from the disaster of a John Kerry presidency. (It's hard to believe that there could be a worse person in the White House, but that is clearly the case with Barack Obama…)

For about a year, I drove around with this on my window up here in Massachusetts:

To the Massachusetts moon bats credit (if indeed credit can be given in any way to them) my car never got vandalized, but I did have one incident that makes me laugh every time I think about it. One morning as I was driving into work, a car passed me on my right. As I looked over I saw a hand pressed up against the driver side window with the middle finger extended. To my astonishment, it “looked like a little old lady with a gray bun on her head! (In retrospect, I'm not sure she was actually a little old lady, but one of those 50+ year old aging moon bats, but when they look like that, you can never really tell…) I'll be honest, I very nearly did run off the road!

The night before The Gathering of Eagles in 2007, I had the honor, privilege and pleasure to meet a number of The Swift Boat Veterans at the counter-Code Pink demonstration in front of Walter Reed hospital. I got a chance to talk to them face to face for several hours, shake their hands and extend a genuine and heartfelt “thank you” to them. It was special, being able to stand up there by the side of the road, holding an American flag by their side, and being able to hear their point of view on things.

They told me the story of how John Kerry showed up at their reunion, and he walked in wearing a leather flight jacket expecting everybody to make him the center of attention… instead, all The Swift Boat veterans were saying “Who the hell does HE think he is?”

You know, I always felt that these men could have just kept their mouths shut. They could've just stayed at home and swore at the TV like many of us did. But instead, they got off their rear ends and went back to work in the service of their country. Many of them took heat for this, and there was that one fellow who lost his job because of it.

I say, God Bless The Swift Boat Veterans!

[rlmorel]

"...Yeah, Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America." One look at the advancing NVA in early 1968 and he promptly defecated in his pants. He managed through his glibness of speech to convince the American public that the stain and smell radiating from his fouled skivvies was the odor of our troops in defeat..."

Funny you should say this...my buddy and I just watched Vietnam War - The Impact of Media (Narrated by Charlton Heston) tonight, though I am sure it is old hat to you, FRiend...:)

Heck, you are probably the one who sent me the link!

You are spot on, and thank you for your service.

[Fledermaus]

This guy needs a therapist or should be on meds. He’s totally obsessed with the fact the truth got out and he couldn’t control it.

For god’s sake, the DNC convention when he did the “arriving at sea” photo op and then saluting and proclaiming he was “ready for duty” were clear signs he’s completely delusional.

He needs to be institutionalized for the public’s safety.

[Seaplaner]

We need to remember that Mister Kerry is the America-hating humanoid fungus who dishonored his country by throwing his service decorations away in a protest in 1971.

And, from Human Events, Kerry insulted our Military in a 2006 speech…Kerry said at a campaign event yesterday at Pasadena City College, “You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

[Interesting Times]

Now this is a fine thread.

Here are a few stray links, for anyone who can use a little pro-Swift boat ammunition:

February 24, 2004 - Doonesbury and the Winter Soldiers

March 9, 2004: The Rest of the Kerry Transcript

May 16, 2004: Swift Boat Veterans and the Media Iron Curtain

June 4, 2004: Coordinating With the Enemy: Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Paris and Hanoi

June 9, 2004: American Genocide: Fonda, Kerry, and the war crimes propaganda campaign

September 6, 2004: Yesterday’s Lies: Steve Pitkin and the Winter Soldiers

October 26, 2004: John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi’s American Puppets?

August 15, 2006: Still Slandering the Troops

February 25, 2008: Newly Discovered Army Reports Discredit “Winter Soldier” Claims

August 21, 2008: “Swiftboating,” Media Myths and the 2004 Campaign

May 25, 2009: Media still lying about the Swift Boat Veterans

August 19, 2011: Did Kerry's Swift Boat hatchet man fake his own Silver Star?

[Interesting Times]

Kerry nostalgia pingaroo.

[Bellflower]

Aaah, what a beautiful memory, Kerry being swiftboated. May it also happen to Obama, to my great rejoicing!

[Godebert]

[Godebert]

[zot]

Hanoi John Kerry knows the Swift Boat Vets defeated him, but he attributes it to rich Republicans.

[potlatch]

Nostalgia indeed!

HEADING FOR CAMBODIA

[Terry Mross]

Remember LBJ’s WWII trip? These people believe their own lies.

[skinkinthegrass]

NOT SO ambiguously Gay Duo
i don't want to know where his (Kerry) right hand is,
why does "the Silk Pony" have such a sick smile.

[BIGLOOK]

The Tet Offensive in '68 ended in a route of the NVA and a decimation of the VC and the free flow and proliferation of Yellow Journalism in the media.

[doug from upland]

DFU SONG: One Tin Soldier (a salute to John O’Neill and the SwiftVets)
DFU SONGS | 11-2004 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland

Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 9:58:58 PM by doug from upland

MIDI - ONE TIN SOLDIER (had to choose new MIDI - hope it tracks okay)
http://www.harpinanawhinin.com/Tabs/TVMovieThemeSongs/one_tin_soldier.htm

Listen, people, to the story of the man who won the day
We had really dodged a bullet...with his men he would lead the way
When he learned that John Forbes Kerry had been working on a plan
He could never let that happen...that man’s unfit for command

DemocRATS would launch their salvos...he stood up to every blow
They used every dirty tactic...but they could not make him go
He risked his life once for his country...and stepped up again
John O’Neill and the SwiftVets...you will never know finer men

All the lefties got together and they said these men had lied
They would not debate the substance...John Forbes Kerry simply denied
We watched the charade keep going...records he would not reveal
Brokaw, Jennings, and Dan Rather thought that it was no big deal

DemocRATS would launch their salvos...he stood up to every blow
They used every dirty tactic...but they could not make him go
He risked his life once for his country...and stepped up again
John O’Neill and the SwiftVets...you will never know finer men

Voters finally paid attention...Kerry’s wounded, and it showed
This man was a fake and phony...from his mouth the anger had flowed
On a fateful day it happened...on a Tuesday in ‘04
That is when he was rejected...Kerry had been shown the door

DemocRATS would launch their salvos...he stood up to every blow
They used every dirty tactic...but they could not make him go
He risked his life once for his country...and stepped up again
John O’Neill and the SwiftVets...you will never know finer men

[ETL]

"...if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned."-J.F. Kerry

"Under questioning from the Committee, Kerry referred to the democratically elected government of South Vietnam -- our allies -- as a "dictatorial regime, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime," while respectfully calling the North Vietnamese communist regime we were fighting by its oxymoronic official name, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the murderous Viet Cong's political arm by their preferred "Provisional Revolutionary Government.":
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez042804.asp
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June, 1970 -- Kerry joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national veterans group that is part of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City. VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, a former Black Panther, is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ. Hubbard soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the normal election process.
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Fact: The Black Panthers were revolutionary communists...

From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [i.e., the police].

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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John Kerry and the VVAW--Hanoi's American Puppets?
"Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=puppets
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) Complete FBI files:
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=VVAWFBI

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Photograph of Madame Binh and Jane Fonda
Displayed in the Women’s Museum, Saigon, May 28, 2004
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JOHN KERRY BEING HONORED, BY COMMUNISTS, FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR VICTORY OVER UNITED STATES

Source for both:
http://www.tinyvital.com/Misc/KerryHonoredByCommunists2.htm

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John Kerry, from his book, The New Soldier
"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small [American] flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.'..."

"The John Kerry quote comes in the epilogue to "The New Soldier," the book put out by Vietnam Veterans Against the War [VVAW]. The book's cover features a group of not-particularly sober-looking anti-war protesters (vets, presumably) flying the American flag upside down [while mocking the historic flag raising event at Iwo Jima]":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203164/posts

Note John Kerry's name at top right of The New Soldier

"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small (American) flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.' "

So John Kerry would have a difficult time marching with those waving small American flags yet had NO problems marching with those waving HUGE VIETCONG FLAGS?

"Pictured above: VVAW-supported demonstration during the Washington Spring Offensive, April - May 1971. Notice the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong flags."

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"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

Photograph of Madame Binh and Jane Fonda
Displayed in the Women’s Museum, Saigon, May 28, 2004
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John Kerry, from his book, The New Soldier
"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small [American] flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.'..."